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There was a collective sigh of relief heard around south Florida after Hurricane Matthew passed by early Friday morning. A large part of that sigh came from horsemen stabled at Gulfstream Park, Gulfstream Park West, and the areas two training facilities, Palm Meadows and Palm Beach Downs.Hunkered down and fearing the worst, horsemen from all four stabling areas reported nary a hint of damage from the storm. In fact, it was pretty much business as usual Friday at Gulfstream and Gulfstream West, with both racetracks, which were closed Thursday, reopening for training at 7 a.m. There was no training at Palm Meadows.There are horses out on the track right now, trainer Phil Combest said Friday morning from Gulfstream West, formerly Calder Race Course. The track was sealed, obviously, and its a little hard but not too bad this morning. The winds never got much above 40 to 45 mph, and we didnt even really get that much rain. It was pretty much like the storms we get regularly around here this time of year. We were really lucky.Trainer Chuck Simon said conditions were much the same about 45 miles north at Palm Meadows on Friday, despite some dire predictions ahead of Matthews arrival. Forecasts had called for winds up to 120 mph in that area if the storm reached the shore, as many had expected, in Palm Beach County, where Palm Meadows is located.Honestly, if you didnt know there was a major hurricane out there, you really wouldnt have known anything out of the usual happened here, said Simon, who has been a regular at Palm Meadows the past several summers. There is no flooding, no trees down. They did cancel training, although we could have trained. The track looks to be in decent shape.We took all the usual precautions for a major hurricane -- locked everything up, cleared the shed rows of debris, anything that could fly around, and blocked areas that might cause potential flooding in the barn. But as things turned out, none of that was really necessary.The racing office was open for business at Gulfstream Park on Friday, taking entries for Mondays holiday program across town at Gulfstream Park West. The opening of the Gulfstream Park West meet, originally scheduled for last Wednesday, was set to take place Saturday.We took precautions because our first priority is always our horsemen, horses, jockeys, etc., said P.J. Campo, general manager at Gulfstream Park and vice president of racing for The Stronach Group. Fortunately, none of our facilities suffered any damage from the storm, training resumed as normal on Friday, and were looking forward to a great opening at Gulfstream Park West on Saturday. Nike Air Max 90 From China . "I wrote 36 on my sheet at the beginning of the game," the Cincinnati coach said, referring the yard line the ball would need to be snapped from. Nike Air Max 90 Outlet . 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DALLAS -- Fans chanted S-M-U when the Mustangs, three-touchdown underdogs against No. 11 Houston, took a lead that big in the first half.They were chanting again in the final moments of a 38-16 victory Saturday, one of the biggest for a program thats been mostly moribund in three decades since getting shut down by crippling sanctions under the NCAAs so-called death penalty.It means everything, said redshirt freshman quarterback Ben Hicks, who threw for three touchdowns and ran for another score. We just needed one. Weve been saying it all along. Now we got that one, and now we have to flip the script and get ready for Tulane.But let coach Chad Morris and his gang enjoy this one for maybe a day at least. Morris, a Dallas native, took the job after the program collapsed following several promising seasons under June Jones.The laid-back former NFL coach took the Mustangs to their first bowl game since the programs shutdown -- and they went to four in a row.But a losing season in 2013 was followed by an embarrassing start in 2014, and Jones abruptly quit two games into the season. With a season-ending win at Connecticut in 2014, SMU avoided a second winless season since 2003. It was the seventh one-win campaign, though, since 1990.Morris debut last season was as rough as Jones in 2008, but the Mustangs showed promise early this year by staying with high-scoring Texas teams Baylor and TCU before fading in the second half of both games.There was no fade against the Cougarrs in SMUs fourth win in 20 tries against Houston since returning from the death penalty.dddddddddddd The first game was a 95-21 loss.The last time the Mustangs (3-4, 1-2 American) beat a team ranked 11th or higher, they were No. 4 and finishing off a near-perfect 1982 season (11-0-1) with a 7-3 victory over sixth-ranked Pittsburgh in the Cotton Bowl. SMU tied No. 7 Texas A&M in 1994.After the game, to see our student body and our former players and some of the alumni out there, I dont know how long I stayed out there taking pictures with them, Morris said. But the `Thank yous. `Coach, we thank you. Weve been waiting on something like this, to give us life back in this program. They were so close a few years ago and it went down from there.The Mustangs lost senior quarterback Matt Davis to a season-ending knee injury, and Hicks threw nine interceptions in his first four starts. Now he has 486 yards with five touchdowns and no interceptions the past two games. The first game was a 43-40 overtime loss to Tulsa two weeks ago.When we came off the field against Tulsa that was as hurt of a locker room as Ive ever been part of, Morris said. For two weeks weve had to respond. And I shared with them that if we could all respond the right way, great things were coming.Great things came quickly.---More AP college football: www.collegefootball.ap.org ' ' '